Human curiosity is insatiable. When a toddler asks Why? over
and over, rarely waiting for the answer before asking Why?
again, she is expressing a basic characteristic of our species. It is
our instinct to know and understand. Our five senses of taste, touch,
sight, sound, and smell are so limited, will we ever be satisfied with
what we know?

It seems uncanny to us that a dog can sense danger that we cant
see or hear. Dogs have a sense of smell that is so acute that they can
smell their masters before they see them. Birds migrate thousands of miles
every year across oceans and continents. Something in their genes tells
them when to go, and where. That other senses are possible, senses beyond
our physical ability is clear. We cant possibly understand the world
with only hearing, vision, touch, taste and smell.

But humans also have an instinct to ask Why not? We have
always longed to be free of physical limitations. We figured out how to
use fire to keep safe and warm. We developed methods of building boats
so we could travel over water, then eventually vessels that made it possible
to fly to the moon. We devised weapons that made us the most formidable
species on the planet. So why isnt it possible that we have other
hidden capabilities?

Why settle for five senses anyway? If the secret to extra
senses lies in our brain then we can easily come up with ways to make
use of them. Think of what we could accomplish. We could understand the
world-even the universe-if we could only overcome the handicaps of our
physical limitation.

Although we learn as children about the five senses of touch, taste,
sight, hearing, and smell, the other abilities of our species have been
marginalized as fantasy. Extra sensory perception is defined
as magic, religion or existing outside the natural world. But we arent
really biologically limited to five senses at all. Extra Sensory Perception
is part of our everyday lives. It isnt a mystery. Why this fact
is so often ignored, I cant guess. But I can prove to you - beyond
all question - that Homo sapiens' use of ESP is so commonplace that we
discount it rather than embrace it.

Bats dart through the night plucking insects out of the air. Owls swoop
down in the dark forest and fly away with their dinner of mouse or hare.
Eagles see fish underwater from thousands of feet above. Whales can locate
objects through the murky ocean. Bees see light that Homo sapiens can
only describe in theoretical terms. Isnt it obvious that our five
senses are not enough to experience the world around us?

Are these senses beyond our ability? Of course not. Although it took
bats radar to inspire us, Homo sapiens developed radar in the last
century. With it, we can locate objects with great accuracy at enormous
distances. We even use it to predict the weather. Owls night vision
is primitive compared to night-vision tools that we created. What is an
eagles telescopic vision compared to our ability to see other parts
of the galaxy, even across the universe? Bees are able to see colors that
we cant see, but we are able to manipulate those colors and use
them as tools. All these senses and more are available to Homo sapiens.
Not through magic, but through science and logic.

Homo Sapiens have a genetic desire to know and to understand our environment.
We have developed, and will continue to develop paranormal abilities as
long as we embrace logic and practice science.

God is the name we give things we dont understand. Once, fire was
thought of as a god-thing. Forty thousand years ago, the earliest humans
learned how to control fire. Only a few thousand years ago, people believed
that flight was the dominion of gods. Today, we rarely even look down
as we fly from Seattle to Los Angeles. Predicting weather, locating objects
miles away, enhanced abilities to hear and see, were all magical powers
belonging to gods. How small those gods look through modern eyes. How
much more useful is Homo sapiens ability to extend our normal
abilities through science and reason.